Mt. Vesuvius Lives

INFO 526 - Summer 2025 - Final Project

Exploratory Analysis of Seismic Activity: Mt. Vesuvius
Author
Affiliation

Seismic Minds - Weston Scott

School of Information, University of Arizona

Data Wrangling

Rows: 8,475
Columns: 16
$ event_id              <int> 34136, 5595, 13138, 1499, 21103, …
$ time                  <chr> "2024-04-14T16:05:54Z", "2021-08-…
$ latitude              <dbl> 40.86050, 40.82580, 40.82570, 40.…
$ longitude             <dbl> 14.34917, 14.43120, 14.43000, 14.…
$ depth_km              <dbl> 9.35, 5.11, 4.78, 4.42, 4.00, 4.0…
$ duration_magnitude_md <dbl> 2.30, 1.60, 2.18, 2.50, 1.70, 0.0…
$ md_error              <dbl> 0.3, 0.3, 0.3, 0.3, 0.3, 0.3, 0.3…
$ area                  <chr> "Mount Vesuvius", "Mount Vesuvius…
$ type                  <chr> "earthquake", "earthquake", "eart…
$ review_level          <chr> "preliminary", "preliminary", "pr…
$ year                  <int> 2024, 2021, 2021, 2019, 2014, 201…
$ depth_abs             <dbl> 9.35, 5.11, 4.78, 4.42, 4.00, 4.0…
$ depth_boundary_1km    <fct> > 5 km, > 5 km, < 5 km, < 5 km, <…
$ depth_boundary_0.5km  <fct> > 5 km, > 5 km, 4.5 ~ 5 km, 4 ~ 4…
$ depth_rescaled        <dbl> 11.000000, 6.460385, 6.107066, 5.…
$ mag_rescaled          <dbl> 0.8069767, 0.7255814, 0.7930233, …

Display Basic Stats

[1] "Maximum depth (km): 9.35"
[1] "Minimum depth (km): 0.01"
[1] "Maximum Magnitude: 3.1"
[1] "Minimum Magnitude: -2"

Make Initial Scatter Plot

Generate Histogram for Depth Analysis

Capture Elevation Data for Contour Mapping

Rows: 38,243
Columns: 3
$ x         <dbl> 14.33007, 14.33073, 14.33138, 14.33204, 14.33…
$ y         <dbl> 40.88961, 40.88961, 40.88961, 40.88961, 40.88…
$ elevation <dbl> 14, 13, 12, 11, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 13, 13, 1…

Create Static Display of Depth Bins

Create Animated Display of Depth Bins